XVII. Peck, in the ‘Desiderata Curiosa,’
Vol. II., has inserted “The HISTORY and
ANTIQUITIES of the CATHEDRAL CHURCH of the Blessed
Virgin St. MARY at LINCOLN; containing an exact Copy
of all the Monumental Inscriptions there, in Number
163, as they stood in 1641; most of which was soon
after torn up, or otherwise defaced. Collected
by ROBERT SANDERSON, S.T.P., afterwards Lord Bishop
of that Church, and compared with and corrected by
Sir WILLIAM DUGDALE’S MS. Survey.”

Dr. White Kennet, Bishop of Peterborough, had in his
possession the copies of two letters transcribed from
the originals that were in the hands of Bishop Barlow.
1. Superscribed “For Mr. Thomas Barlow,
at the Library in Oxon,” and subscribed “Your
very loving friend and servant, ROBERT SANDERSON,”
dated “Botheby Pagnell, Sept. 28, 1656,”
importuning Dr. Barlow, “to undertake the managing
that dispute in the question of great importance upon
the ancient landmarks, by Dr. Jeremy Taylor; so unhappily
(and so unseasonably too) endeavoured to be removed
in the doctrine of original sin.” 2. Another
letter of Dr. Sanderson to Dr. Barlow, at Queen’s
College, dated “Botheby Pagnell, Sept. 17, 1657,”
expressing himself, “That Dr. Taylor is so peremptory
and pertinacious of his errors as not to hearken to
the sober advices of his grave, reverend, and learned
friends, amidst the distractions of these times,”
&c.

Dr. Sanderson and Dr. Hammond were jointly concerned
in a work entitled “A PACIFIC DISCOURSE of GOD’S
GRACE and DECREES,” published by the latter
in 1660.

It would be improper not to observe, that in the Preface
to the Polyglott Bible, printed at London in 1657,
Dr. Bryan Walton has classed Dr. Sanderson among those
of his much honoured friends who assisted him in that
noble work.

ADDITIONAL NOTES

The numbers at the beginning of paragraphs refer
to the pages

LIFE OF HOOKER

Frontispiece.—­The portrait here
given is from Hooker’s monument in Bishopsbourne
Church.

Text, etc.—­The Life of Mr. Richard
Hooker was first published in small octavo
in 1665. The second edition was prefixed to the
Ecclesiastical Polity of 1666, folio,
and again in 1676 and 1682. It was also included
in Walton’s collection of 1670. A valuable
essay on Hooker by Dean Church is prefixed to the
Clarendon Press edition of the first book of Ecclesiastical
Polity, 1876.

Page

3. at this time of my age. He says at p. 4
that he was “past the seventy of his age.”

5. John Hales. See vol. i. p. 193, note.

7. He was born, etc. “Probably in March,
1553-54,” says the Dict. of Nat. Biography.

8. a school-boy. He was educated at Exeter
grammar school.

14. the Bishop said to him. Cf. chap.
iii. of the Vicar of Wakefield, where this
anecdote is referred to. Indeed Hooker is there
alleged to have been the “great ancestor”
of George Primrose.